Yeah sometimes the anti-spam filters glitch on people. But when that happens the comment is held in a moderation queue for me to approve, so it will still show up on the page once I get my hands on it.
I haven’t commented in ages, but somehow you sound annoyed at yourself in the comments, so I wanted to say that, though I read many comics, this is the one I look forward to most. Family stuff always gets me right in the sentimentality.
You’re wonderful. I just thought you might need to be reminded of that.
And in my own way of supporting your comic, I decided to outbid the project wonderful ad on the right side of the page. Hope the extra cents help. :p
Poor Selkie. She’ll soon learn that normal is often boring, but boring isn’t necessarily bad (and is sometimes very much needed). Can’t wait to see where normal takes her! And when / what the next disruption is going to be …
I’ll note that housecats love fish and milk, too, and when was the last time you saw a cat catch a salmon or milk a cow? They like beef, as well, and they’re not very well going to take down a heifer.
My first cat, who hated having water poured on her as much as any other cat, did indeed figure out how to not only get those fishies out of the aquarium, but how to get past our first few attempts to keep her from getting at the fishies. If she was the one getting her paws wet, she didn’t mind.
It’s been established that Selkie eats (and, to all appearances, enjoys) not just tuna and swordfish, but ham, liver, bacon, steak, and I probably missed a few here and there. She’s definitely a carnivore!
Selkie is not just a carnivore, she is an obligate carnivore, unable to digest plant matter to the extent it resembles an allergic reaction. I don’t feel like doing an archive crawl, but it was explained in the comic way back near the beginning.
Meanwhile, Principal Hobbit is still having a decidedly not-normal day (looking forward to getting a glimpse of that now that Selkie is “back to normal”). Selkie, meanwhile, just hates writing papers. She would probably have loved it if they were doing some hands-on work instead.
Fake enthusiasm to try and “sell” a boring task? Sounds like some teachers I had back in the day. Suck-metrics were directly proportional to how enthused the teacher sounded about it.
Stupid question for Dave, I don’t know if anyone’s asked this before and been answered already – but out of curiosity… is Jessie an albino? It just struck me that she’s really pale, white hair, and her eyes appear to be pink. It doesn’t matter to the story line or to her character in any significant way, I was just wondering. If she is, it might explain why she was so accepting of Selkie right from the beginning if she were somehow “different” herself.
Hey Dave, you might want to check your code or something. When I hit the next page button to see this page from my bookmark I got briefly redirected to Adult Friend Finder. Not something I wish to see, especially when I was trying to see the new page. I hit my back button and tried again and actually got to this page. Not sure what’s going on, but thought you should get a heads up on it.
I got linked to it too.
I love the way they warn of explicit content… to the right of a pair of pretty explicit content. It seems rather pointless.
But yes, it must go right away! Think of the children! Also, it was annoying. And it may have said I lived in Sheffield. I wasn’t paying much attention.
Same here. I thought it was just safari on my iphone acting up and redirecting me to either the app store all of the time or to adultfriendfinder as well.
I just tried the strip’s nav links(first, previous, next, last) without any problem at present. Also checked the links at the top(archive, art, faq, etc.) They all seem in normal working order.
…And that wasn’t what you meant, was it? *faceplant* Sorry. It’s like 90 degree heat here, and my brain may be a bit fried.
I’ve been using Google Chrome, and I have the comic’s home page bookmarked. So far, no trouble with popups.
She’d prolly enjoy sashimi, but sushi is a preparation of rice with vinegar plus meat or a vegetable wrapped in seaweed, so she’d have to skip most of it.
Be grateful Selkie… Wait till you hit the age where you’re dissecting fetal pigs in Biology… Few things creeped me out more than realize that I was snapping a baby animals’ ribs like twigs so I could take all the organs out. Eeegh.
On the other hand, the Spider Wasp article you read probably would just make you excited about the pig… nevermind.
This has completely slipped by me despite several read-throughs (until it was discussed in plain words much later in the comic, IIRC) but Todd has adopted Sarnothi gestures of parental affection (panel 6).
It was not-exactly-explained in wordless picture format immediately following the discussion of Todd’s rashy cheeks with the full family, but it’s easy to miss if you’re not paying attention to the right parts of that picture. 🙁
Welcome to being a kid, Selkie. 😀
My “normal” sucks too, kiddo.
In my social circle, “normal” is treated like a swear word.
My world also. Then again I live in a world where most people play RPG, and 20% of the population is trans* so I may not be a good exemplar.
Nothing quite like an RP group. A world where being a guy who slays dragons with a sword is “boring and overdone.”
I frown a lot when people call me NORMAL.
Jackasses…
I wonder what is going to happen with the principle.
Also Dave the site seems to think I’m spamming when I comment from my phone.
Yeah sometimes the anti-spam filters glitch on people. But when that happens the comment is held in a moderation queue for me to approve, so it will still show up on the page once I get my hands on it.
normal is just fine as a kid. normal only sucks once yo have responsibilities like bills and work enjoy the normal selkie
When your normal is being bullied and hated? No.
And I’m not even touching abuse with 10-ft pole.
Normal is relative – but none of my relatives are normal. 😉
I hope you don’t mind, but I am going to steal that line!
I wont mind. . . if I get paid royalties. :p
I haven’t commented in ages, but somehow you sound annoyed at yourself in the comments, so I wanted to say that, though I read many comics, this is the one I look forward to most. Family stuff always gets me right in the sentimentality.
You’re wonderful. I just thought you might need to be reminded of that.
And in my own way of supporting your comic, I decided to outbid the project wonderful ad on the right side of the page. Hope the extra cents help. :p
Hee hee, thanks. Yeah I get a little annoyed at myself when I run late like this, but it’s fine. Thanks for the support. 😀
I agree that swordfish is pretty good, but I probably don’t appreciate it the way she does.
Poor Selkie. She’ll soon learn that normal is often boring, but boring isn’t necessarily bad (and is sometimes very much needed). Can’t wait to see where normal takes her! And when / what the next disruption is going to be …
It just randomly occurred to me that it was peculiar for a fresh-water species to enjoy eating salt-water fish.
But, I suppose that is no more peculiar than a native of Ottumwa, Iowa enjoying eating Chinese food. 😛
I’ll note that housecats love fish and milk, too, and when was the last time you saw a cat catch a salmon or milk a cow? They like beef, as well, and they’re not very well going to take down a heifer.
A cat given access to a brook with minnows may figure out how to scoop minnows from the water, actually.
My first cat, who hated having water poured on her as much as any other cat, did indeed figure out how to not only get those fishies out of the aquarium, but how to get past our first few attempts to keep her from getting at the fishies. If she was the one getting her paws wet, she didn’t mind.
It’s been established that Selkie eats (and, to all appearances, enjoys) not just tuna and swordfish, but ham, liver, bacon, steak, and I probably missed a few here and there. She’s definitely a carnivore!
Selkie is not just a carnivore, she is an obligate carnivore, unable to digest plant matter to the extent it resembles an allergic reaction. I don’t feel like doing an archive crawl, but it was explained in the comic way back near the beginning.
Being normal is over-rated.
They’re like fish… with swords.
I wanna see the aftermath of the police getting involved.
Meanwhile, Principal Hobbit is still having a decidedly not-normal day (looking forward to getting a glimpse of that now that Selkie is “back to normal”). Selkie, meanwhile, just hates writing papers. She would probably have loved it if they were doing some hands-on work instead.
Iunno about you guys, but Jessie is WAYYY too excited about science essays.
Fake enthusiasm to try and “sell” a boring task? Sounds like some teachers I had back in the day. Suck-metrics were directly proportional to how enthused the teacher sounded about it.
Stupid question for Dave, I don’t know if anyone’s asked this before and been answered already – but out of curiosity… is Jessie an albino? It just struck me that she’s really pale, white hair, and her eyes appear to be pink. It doesn’t matter to the story line or to her character in any significant way, I was just wondering. If she is, it might explain why she was so accepting of Selkie right from the beginning if she were somehow “different” herself.
Jessie is albino, yes.
Hey Dave, you might want to check your code or something. When I hit the next page button to see this page from my bookmark I got briefly redirected to Adult Friend Finder. Not something I wish to see, especially when I was trying to see the new page. I hit my back button and tried again and actually got to this page. Not sure what’s going on, but thought you should get a heads up on it.
Yrgh yeah no, not what I want linking through this site. I’ll check into it, thanks.
I got linked to it too.
I love the way they warn of explicit content… to the right of a pair of pretty explicit content. It seems rather pointless.
But yes, it must go right away! Think of the children! Also, it was annoying. And it may have said I lived in Sheffield. I wasn’t paying much attention.
Same here. I thought it was just safari on my iphone acting up and redirecting me to either the app store all of the time or to adultfriendfinder as well.
Is it coming up when you all use nav links or just regular browsing? I disabled some of my plug-ins, seeing f it helps.
I just tried the strip’s nav links(first, previous, next, last) without any problem at present. Also checked the links at the top(archive, art, faq, etc.) They all seem in normal working order.
…And that wasn’t what you meant, was it? *faceplant* Sorry. It’s like 90 degree heat here, and my brain may be a bit fried.
I’ve been using Google Chrome, and I have the comic’s home page bookmarked. So far, no trouble with popups.
It happened to me, too. I had just hit the “Page Down” button, which should not have done anything other than scrolling the page.
Has Todd ever taken her to a sushi place? NOMS
I know he’s a vegetarian but he can eat veggie tempura or something
She’d prolly enjoy sashimi, but sushi is a preparation of rice with vinegar plus meat or a vegetable wrapped in seaweed, so she’d have to skip most of it.
Yeah I know, but most restaurants I would classify as a “sushi place” serve sushi, sashimi, and a few other kinds of Japanese food.
Be grateful Selkie… Wait till you hit the age where you’re dissecting fetal pigs in Biology… Few things creeped me out more than realize that I was snapping a baby animals’ ribs like twigs so I could take all the organs out. Eeegh.
On the other hand, the Spider Wasp article you read probably would just make you excited about the pig… nevermind.
This has completely slipped by me despite several read-throughs (until it was discussed in plain words much later in the comic, IIRC) but Todd has adopted Sarnothi gestures of parental affection (panel 6).
It was not-exactly-explained in wordless picture format immediately following the discussion of Todd’s rashy cheeks with the full family, but it’s easy to miss if you’re not paying attention to the right parts of that picture. 🙁